Quote (Arsenic_Touch @ Tue, Nov 25 2008, 02:39pm)
The mods know who is helpful and who isn't. This wouldn't work because anyone can get their friends to vouche and fabricate evidence to say they're trusted by the community.
Also, 98% of all trusted members did not donate until AFTER they got their tag. Some have only donated enough to get donor forums access. Some have only donated enough for the first star, and others show appreciation to the site by donating when they can.
People can claim that sucking up to the mods helps, but it doesn't. If anything, it'll hurt your chances. If suckying up to the mods worked, you'd see alot more trusted tags.
Want a good chance? help out in general help. Report infractions in the trade forum via the report trade thread feature. If a user is breaking more than one violation, gather up his threads and link them + their profile to a trade mod or trade assistant or junior mod, whoever covers that area.
Volunteer to be a s/a helper when there's an opening.
Don't break any forum rules. Be polite.
These are just a few guidelines that you can follow to show the mods that you are good member of this forum.
you made alot of sense i suppose you are correct but i just thought it would be a good way for the normal public to try and help the meds and stuff see the most helpfull people and i guess it would be another way for spammers and scammers and the like to exploit the site
bah why do some people resort to advancing in any aspect of life but praying on others this